RULE 2: TREAT YOURSELF LIKE SOMEONE YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING
fn1 It is of great interest, in this regard, that the five-part taijitu (referred to in Chapter 1
and the source of the simpler yin/yang symbol) expresses the origin of the cosmos as,
first, originating in the undifferentiated absolute, then dividing into yin and yang
(chaos/order, feminine/masculine), and then into the five agents (wood, fire, earth, metal,
water) and then, simply put, “the ten thousand things.” The Star of David (chaos/order,
feminine/masculine) gives rise in the same way to the four basic elements: fire, air, water
and earth (out of which everything else is built). A similar hexagram is used by the
Hindus. The downward triangle symbolizes Shakti, the feminine; the upward triangle,
Shiva, the masculine. The two components are known as om and hrim in Sanskrit.
Remarkable examples of conceptual parallelism.
fn2 Or, in another interpretation, He split the original androgynous individual into two
parts, male and female. According to this line of thinking, Christ, the “second Adam,” is
also the original Man, before the sexual subdivision. The symbolic meaning of this should
be clear to those who have followed the argument thus far.RULE 5: DO NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN DO ANYTHING THAT MAKES YOU DISLIKE
THEMfn1 I draw here and will many times again in the course of this book on my clinical
experience (as I have, already, on my personal history). I have tried to keep the moral of
the stories intact, while disguising the details for the sake of the privacy of those involved.
I hope I got the balance right.RULE 7: PURSUE WHAT IS MEANINGFUL (NOT WHAT IS EXPEDIENT)fn1 And this is all true, note, whether there is—or is not—actually such a powerful
figure, “in the sky” :)
fn2 In keeping with this observation is the fact that the word Set is an etymological
precursor to the word Satan. See Murdock, D.M. (2009). Christ in Egypt: the Horus-Jesus
connection. Seattle, WA: Stellar House, p. 75.
fn3 For anyone who thinks this is somehow unrealistic, given the concrete material
reality and genuine suffering that is associated with privation, I would once again
recommend Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, which contains a series of exceptionally